Understanding Quotes by Richard Dawkins

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

— Richard Dawkins

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

— Richard Dawkins

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

— Richard Dawkins

There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding.

— Richard Dawkins

I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding.

— Richard Dawkins

“More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us…

— Richard Dawkins

I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually…

— Richard Dawkins

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by…

— Richard Dawkins

Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a…

— Richard Dawkins

What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely…

— Richard Dawkins

I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as…

— Richard Dawkins

The true scientific understanding of the nature of existence is so utterly fascinating; how could you not want people to share it?…

— Richard Dawkins

It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists…

— Richard Dawkins

Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising…

— Richard Dawkins

Evolution is a very, very important idea. It is the explanation for all of life - a stunningly simple, yet powerful explanation.…

— Richard Dawkins

You could give Aristotle a tutorial and you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath,…

— Richard Dawkins

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with…

— Richard Dawkins

I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles. The argument I shall advance, surprising as…

— Richard Dawkins

That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of…

— Richard Dawkins

“You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath,…

— Richard Dawkins